How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

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Post by ing33k » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 11:35 AM UTC

How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
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Post by huntertwo » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.

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Post by thewizardofaus » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

huntertwo wrote: post #2

That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.

They should have used Comic sans. Released 1994.

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Post by ccozan » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 11:58 AM UTC

huntertwo wrote: post #2

That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.

I guess Courier would be the standart choice, right? At least most of the official and semi official papers I've seen were typed in a variant of it.

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Post by xbmcuser » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 11:58 AM UTC

thewizardofaus wrote: post #3

huntertwo wrote: post #2

That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.

They should have used Comic sans. Released 1994.

There a saying in Urdu (Pakistani Language) Nakal ke liye Bhi Akal Chaye i.e Even to cheat you need brains.

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 12:01 PM UTC

Curious how/who noticed the font detail and knew enough that it could help date the document.

However, couldn't the machine identification code from the printer reveal exactly when the document was printed?

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Post by baybal2 » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

BTW, Avenfield reference case verdict has just been pronounced. Literally few minutes ago: Nawaz gets 10 years!

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Post by userbinator » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 12:05 PM UTC

It's like watching a movie set in the 1950s and noticing someone in the background walking past with his head looking down at a smartphone.

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Post by amriksohata » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 12:06 PM UTC

Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.

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Post by philliphaydon » Fri, Jul 06, 2018, 12:06 PM UTC

If it was released in beta of longhorn in 2004 couldn’t they have still legitimately created the doc???